My lovely little break!

I have had a wonderful little break here between year I and year II of PA school. It has literally been such a refreshing and relaxing time! I cannot believe I made it through year I of PA school, man, it was rough. I start my rotations next week, and have orientation the rest of this week. My first rotation is in psych, at Detroit Receiving, and it is a month long. The only info I know about it is to show up at 9am on Monday, May 2nd. No idea what my schedule will look like - should really just be an interesting year!

Anyway, here is a summery of the highlights of my break....

Lex and her awesome Harry Potter cake that Mark made her! (and I helped a little bit) She loves HP, and its suppose to be Hogwarts. It was verrrry tasty!!



For Lexy's 18th birthday my mom surprised us with a dinner at the chef's table at Zazios. I had never heard of the restaurant, and was a little skeptical, but it was absolutely fabulous and we felt very special!



For my moms (39th -ish) birthday we made cards of 60 reasons why she is the best mom every, and put them in balloons and surprised her in her room. She loved it! Yay!


Other highlights that I don't have pictures of are:
   - Sleeping in with Mark (today he woke me up at noon - after 12 hours of sleep - pure bliss)
   - Reading a non school book
   - Selling books on Amazon to make some money
   - Babysitting Anna and Amy :)
   - Easter and spending the day with Mark's family in Holland and Hudsonville
   - Getting a scholarship! Praise God!!
   - Getting a new computer (a verrrry early birthday present from my mom), but its an acer laptop, and was a great deal, and I LOVE it! (and my old one officially would not hold a charge - so had to be put down)
   - Getting to hear Mark give the lessons for the youth group twice, which is so encouraging for me. He is so gifted, and for me to hear encouragement in that is just huge in our lives right now.
   - Hanging out with Mike and Kelly (friends from college) at Applebees for a few hours, they are just great, and it was a fun time.
   - A MSU visit with Lex. I got to be her parent for this info thing, it was such a fun day, and we got lunch in the caf, which was probably the highlight. Its so fun hearing about MSU, and seeing her get excited to go there, and just to be on campus again. We went to the presentations, lunch, a tour, the bookstore, Bubble Island, and then to Trinity church to meet Ashley for dinner at Cancun (of course). It was such a fun day, and I just so enjoy spending time with Lex!
   - Celebrating being done with my first year! My mom took my sisters and I, (and Anna and Amy) to Carabas for dinner (Mark had to work). Such great food, and we all just had such a nice time!
   

Well, that was a little summary of my break!

Mark is still working at gracespring church until the end of June (when they are letting him go), delivering for Pizza Hut, and random jobs for money. We are not sure what is going to happen after June, we are praying for a full time opportunity to open up before then. Ideally in youth ministry, but would be open to anything. This has been such a difficult season of life, but we have much to be thankful for, we know that God is God, and God is good.

Love,
Brittany